Remember when Disney Animation was in the Lost Age of “Home on the Range” and “Chicken Little”? That was a dark time, when finding good entertainment to shut the kids up was harder to find. Then came John Lasseter, ushering in “Meet the Robinsons” and “Bolt,” giving Disney Animation a Most Improved award to add to their wall. It’s been a while since I saw…
Image a world where Thor met Rapunzel. What would they do together? If you guessed that Thor would lift Rapunzel up over his head with beefy Chris Hemsworth arms and fly her around while she threw an infinite supply of frying pans at Frost Giants, you’d be right. And likely smoking some pretty strong stuff. That, in a nutshell, is my experience with Disney Infinity,…
(If you’re looking for the 2016 Live Action version, click here) I remember reading a post from a well renown author talking about how difficult it was to get back into the habit of writing after even a short break. Well, Thanksgiving is over, the family has (mostly) gone home, and I’m in that writing rut. What better way to pull myself out than writing…
I know, not Disney. But “What Executive Producer Guillermo Del Toro Teaches My Kids” just didn’t have the same ring to it. The Book of Life came out about a month ago to reviews leaning towards the positive side. Overall, I thought it was great. Maybe not ‘instant classic’ great, and maybe not even ‘buy and put on the Plex Server‘ great, but it was…
Like all good modern parents, I hand over a significant amount of my parenting to my great uncle’s popular invention, the digital babysitter. And like all good modern parents, one of the babysitters I trust most is Walt Disney. I mean his company’s movies and shows, in case you were confused by that last sentence. Not the cryogenically frozen part of him. That’d be gross.
We saw Big Hero 6 last Saturday at the now world famous Century 16. I like going there from time to time, both because it’s cheap, and because I see it as a bit of a middle finger to the d-bag who made the place famous. They have cops working the place full time now, which makes me feel a bit more secure. As for the…
No, the title is not a spelling error. Just keep reading. Ever since my dad came home with an original Nintendo (despite him actually wanting an Atari), I’ve been a big fan of video games. Now that I have kids of my own, my playing time has been reduced to almost zero, but I still like to keep up with the latest news (or, in…
(Note: this was originally on my tax blog CreativelyAccounting.com, but I moved it over here, since it is not tax related) I saw last week that Disney’s Sleeping Beauty was soon going to be re-released. Since I have kids and am therefore required to buy everything Disney, I decided to look up the release date and price on Amazon. While I was scrolling through the product…
(Note: this was originally on my tax blog CreativelyAccounting.com, but I moved it over here, since it is not tax related) Last week, while I was trying to shift over to Goodreads (Amy linked my Amazon account with her Shelfari account a couple years ago, which recently resulted in my Shelfari account disappearing), I wrote a review of the recently read Beautiful Creatures as a cathartic release….
(Note: this was originally on my tax blog CreativelyAccounting.com, but I moved it over here, since it is not tax related) When we were at the library the other day, I saw the Disney Peter Pan movie available for checkout. Remembering how much I liked the movie when I was a kid, I decided to give it a chance before purchasing it from that super-secret…